Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1202376 By Acker Bilk. By Acker Bilk and Robert Mellin. Arranged by John Fries. 20th Century,Country,Pop,Standards. Score. 2 pages. John Fries #801066. Published by John Fries (A0.1202376). Please contact me by email at jfries@ptd.net to make a special request or to find out all that I have to offer and to express your comments or concerns. Â You can also type John Fries in the searchbar to see all I have to offer. Thanks, John. Stranger on the Shore is a piece for clarinet written by Acker Bilk for his young daughter and originally named Jenny after her. The tune was written on a single scrap of paper by Bilk and handed over to Leon Young (1916-1991) who crafted the string arrangement, including the characteristic harmonic shifts at the very end. In May 1969, the crew of Apollo 10 took Stranger on the Shore on their mission to the moon. Gene Cernan, a member of the crew, included the tune on a cassette tape used in the command module of the Apollo spacecraft. On 26 May 1962, Stranger on the Shore became the first British recording to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
